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New approach in partial discharge diagnosis and pattern recognition T. Hucker H.-G. Kranz Indexing terms. Partial discharge diagnosis, P D classification, Acoustical P D diagnosis, Compurer assisted measurement An additional diagnosis is very useful in providing reli- Abstract: Digital measuring techniques and diag- able information about the type of discharge source. The nosis systems have been developed to assist the diagnostic potential of acoustical PD-features for an test engineer. The most common diagnostic tools automated PC-aided diagnosis is discussed in this paper. are two- or three-dimensional distributions or his- One main advantage of the acoustical method is the tograms which exhibit the typical patterns of the strong attenuation of the PD-signals, especially at flanges partial discharge (PD) activity. The main dis- [3]. The acoustical transfer function of a spacer is strong- advantage of all these graphs in PD diagnosis is ly frequency dependent: using this information, a local- the averaging effect of the statistics used. The isation of the compartment with the PD-source becomes authors show a graph of partial discharge activity more practicable. without any averaging effect, which gives an over- view of every single PD pulse of the whole mea- 2 Testset-up surement. In this diagram the parameters charge, phase, time and test voltage are included, so that Tests were carried out on gas-insulated switch gear (GIS) it is possible to summarise all significant informa-